Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-15

AND HB DAILY ExPKNs.s-ras YOUNG HAN On 4
sALARY-A SCENE A. rHH ANrI-rovEkrY PAN.
Special oorrsspondencs Of Tnr Evrxrs srAl
NEW York, October IA
"Ezow much q day does 1t cost the average man
to live in New York;" asked Q stranger the other
evening.
"From q to $50" was the not very satisfactory
reply. There is no place in America where some
men spend more money for living expenses and
others exist upon less than in New York The
stranger, however, referred to men who keep up
Appearances and have q reasonably good time.
Here Is the story Of the days experiences OF two
Of them. Young Dives, whose father left him
fortune ana nothing to do except to spend the
income from IL, has Q suite OF rooms not far
from Broadway, at that particularly attractive
point where Delmonicos and other resorts are
located. HIS rooms cost him 5000 year. His
clothes In order and his mouth closed such .
luxury costs Dives $50 month, all his old
clothes and occasionally present OF money. The
OF bloods or leisure In the metropolis, gets up
about noon, puts on bis carefully brushed matuti-
nal suit, and at once begins 20 spend money. A
glass OF Congress water Is the first thing upon
which he lays out funds Then he takes walk II
1t Is pleasant. Every f1ne dav, at nuon or there
waking on FiItn avenue, between twenty bird
and Forty-second streets Dives meets q friend
and they go somewhere 10 breakfast. Your rich
lie gets
DAINTY BREAKFAST
at some fashionable restaurant It costs him about
g. and he manages to kill great deal Of time eat
ing It. Then he succeeds In disbursing dollar for
good cigars He saunten over to his club, sits
the window at the ladies' who y that time are
abroad on shopping expeditions. Having killed
an expense which never falls below $3.50 per
month. He drives out 70 the Casino in Central
he knows and asks him to have drink The nrst
round costs SO cents. Another friend drops In on
them and they have small bottle. Friend No.
small bottle OF wine. Then he shakes hands with
hostler q half dollar. and continues his ride.
he had spent about $50 for Incident
ais on the excursion Sometimes he
puts on his afternoon suit and StrollS over to the
club for game OF billiards. To add interest to
the affair, he plays for wager OF a dollar game
and the drinks He loses say, two games and two
more, but he hasn't begun to spend money yet.
He invites his friend OF the billiard game to dine
wya Mum nn;s ana they to dress FOR dinner
rteh cape overcOat for evening wear, has cost him
$50 and helped 70 swell his tailors bill to g. 900
year walks h Slowly oyes 70 fashionable restau.
Iul task OF ordering dinner. ills just an Informal
afiIr, with a quart Of claret, q quart OF cham
payne, and some cordial for flnal nip, but when
the pair have consumed 1t and an hours tune and
the obsequious waiter has presented the check
Dives tnds his bill TO b. about thirty dollara The
first reciprocates by inviting Dives
10 THE THKATKR.
They hire cab. 60 TO the play. see one act, and
then go out to see man. They nnd him, several Of
him, In tact. Dives opens quart bottle OF cham
payne and they have q drink all around al an
expense OF $3.50. When the play ts over the pair
more wine, and spend more money. Midnight APP
meets with approx Dives conducts the party to
and his ae ana ~
time the young blood OF the men is coursing
through their veins In such q manner as 70
to them, and tuey conclude TO repair to
s s 1ss r " fsGN sr x
O'Clock In the morning be would nnd, II he ever
devoted his energies TO such q vulgar task as
computing his expenses, that 1t had cost him
regular expenses for rent, clothing, carriage hire,
&C. TniS estimate does not include expeu slve lux
uries at ODD out not inIrequent seasons. lake for
eX nipple, The Gu e OF Ives, the young Napoleon or
Wall street. he was not a gentleman or elegant
leisure like the class to which Dives belongs but
schedule OF only part 81 bis ia6i.ite5 covering
owed $4O for clothing s2S4 Tor hosiery, 81, 40 for
very, s132 for siiverware, SO Tor flowers and
1t costs DIVES $50 900 year to live and he doesn't
consider that he Is extrav ant for there scores
OF young lnen In New York VINO spend as much as
he does.
THE YOUNG NAN ON SALARY.
Contrast with him the young man who works
for reasonably liberal salary, and, like Dives,
Is bent upon having good time He has a nat
out In the select but less expensive quarters OF
the city. II costs him 81 q day for rent He gets
up early, eatsa ugnt breakfast that costs him
down town to business f5-cenL cigar to smoke
on his way from the elevated station where he dis.
eInbarks Is his only outlay until luncheon time.
meal, including bottle or beer and cigar for 10
cents At The dinner hour you will mud him at q
reasonably select uptown restaurant discussing q
theater. His dress suit 10 ready made, and cost
him not over $50, but to the casual observer he
looks as well aItred as Dives. He has his AFTER
theater luncheon and drinks, treats his friends
and goes home TO ind that IL has cost him SO 70
get through the day. He has had quite as good
time, and brushed elbows with quite many dis
ttnguisned peOple as the elegant young man OF
leisure. He will tell you that man can live like
lord In New York on 81 OOO, anu yet there is one
hotel and pays SIS a day for his rooms, 81 a day
for cigars and prOportto aately large sums .or food
and wine, and he imagines that he is economical
spend money, and the ordinary man who is bent s,
upon enjoyment must calculate upon paying out
as much again on LLaJ as upon any other day He
DOESN'T utkluc Iudt NC CAL B6L Along With less
than $40, but a Poie, who met with an accident
one sunday this summer at Coney Island, aud was
arrested through blunder, said that his sunday
excursions including railroad fare and Is cents
WORTH OF CRACKERS and herring. cost him only 40
cents, and he declared that he had the greatest
kind OF Iun, but berated himself for his extrava-
gance. AMOS J. CUMMINGS.
II.
SCENE AT THE ANTI-PovERTY FAIR.
One OF the most plaintive and hopeless struggles
have ever seen occurred at the big Antt-Poverty
Fair the other night at Madison Square garden The
huge structure was f1lied by q suIgng and teeming
mass OF American enthusiasts talking OF labor
movements, Dr. McGlynn, socialism, DIR. McGlynn,
poverty, DR.. Mo6lynn and Or. McGlynn ever aud
ever afterward. The SNUG face OF the ex priest
and keen political worker looked out OF every pic
ture frame, and all sorts OF things from washtubs
to roses. bore the mystic name OF McGlynn.
AT the very height OF the excitement Saturday
night tall, fair, suave and artistic-looking En-
Qlishman paid mis- 10 cents at the door and StrOled
into the building with the manner of u man who
is seeing the sights OF the town. He was Lon